Kaito Okada

Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Rivet Ops, focused on platform engineering. Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 21 a week to 1. Most at home with Go and Backstage. Learning woodworking.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2024 - Present
   Rivet Ops · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
   • Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 6.
2. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2021 - Feb 2024
   Petronas · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
   • Moved 68% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Platform Engineer

   Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
   TSMC · 2 yr · Contract · Tokyo, Japan
   • Moved 89% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Staff Platform Engineer

   Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
   Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
   • Moved 80% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Senior Platform Engineer

   Apr 2013 - Jul 2015
   VNG · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
   • Moved 95% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Built the experimentation framework 35 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

1. University of Sydney

   BEng, Mathematics
   2003 - 2007